Free Love Periodically #2
Cleveland, OH: Free Love Press, 1967.
First edition. Bound in publisher's side-stapled illustrated wraps. [32] p. Near Fine with light wear, minor foxing and toning to covers with oxidation to staples. A rare copy of the second and final issue of this Cleveland mimeo/ concrete poetry journal, dedicated to founder and editor rjs (Robert James Sigmond), who was incarcerated on drug charges at the time of publication. The Cleveland Police's "Red Squad" were in the midst of a harassment campaign against rjs and levy; that is why the title page bears the note "WARNING ::: THIS ISSUE IS NOT TO BE READ BY MINORS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE / POETRI IZ NOT GUD FOR U / IT ADDLES THE BRAIN / THIS ISSUE HAS BIN DE-CLARED SUBVERSIVE BY THE CLEVELAND NARKO SQUAD."
Price: $800